Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Well fortified with edible portions of the lotus plant, symbol of indolence and forgetfulness, former Prime Minister Clement Attlee and his roving band of British Laborites last week craned their tourist rubbernecks at Red China. The entertainment provided at Peking was at least as lavish as that shown the British in Moscow. One night there was a ten-course dinner for 400 at The House of Magnanimity (a former imperial palace), where the menu featured melon prepared in the shape of the shaven head of one of Buddha's disciples. On another occasion, a reception for 600, 23 toasts...
Portugal, however, felt passionately different about its numerous picturesque fragments on India's west coast. Goa, chief among them, is the symbol of a golden age of Portuguese conquest four centuries ago and important to Catholic Portuguese as the final resting place of St. Francis Xavier. Goa is also economi cally profitable: last year the port exported more than $11 million worth of manganese and iron ore. In Lisbon, Nehru's designs on Goa were greeted by obstinate fury. Lisbon's Diario de Noticias angrily denounced Nehru as a misguided forerunner of Communism. "The spectacular show staged...
...ABomb. Jesuit Father Hugo Lassalle (who himself survived the bombing) built this World Peace Memorial Church with contributions from Japanese converts plus a $100,000 anonymous contribution from the U.S. In this new church, standing at the birthplace of the atomic age. Christians of all denominations might find a symbol. Various Christian assemblies last week gave at least an appearance of being busy, energetic, and less concerned with lamenting destruction than with building anew...
...R.A.F. bombing range. After the war, the original owner tried to buy it back, but Agriculture Ministry officials highhandedly refused to let it go at any price; they wanted to make an experimental farm out of it some day. Crichel Down has now become a national symbol of the arrogance of bureaucrats. Dugdale, resigning, gallantly took the rap for his subordinates. His successor: Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 54, who had been a success as Minister of State at the Board of Trade...
...himself twelve disciples. The 13 roam the Allied front on leave, even, it is believed, cross no man's land to carry to the Germans the message of peace-on-earth. The corporal, the Christ-figure, is so vague, his powers so unexplained, as to be a symbol without point. But literal lack of point has never bothered Faulkner, nor has the smothering wrap of coincidence. The corporal turns out to be none other than the illegitimate son of the French marshal, generalissimo of all the Allied armies (and presumably, therefore, a Faulknerian Marshal Foch). And where...